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Street protest is resurrection of democratic politics, not insurrection against it (opens the original)
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Is street protest justified in a constitutional democracy? This question has been thrown at this columnist over the last fortnight, provoked by the argument advanced in this column that peaceful and democratic resistance rather than electoral contestation is the way forward for the Opposition. The entire ecosystem of the ruling establishment — the head of the BJP IT cell, the anchor-in-chief of darbari media and their academic spokespersons — has unleashed its fury at this argument and this auth
Yogendra Yadav writes | I was part of the protest march in Delhi. Democratic politics took a new turn (opens the original)
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The regime — and the silence — often made me wonder whether I’m completely crazy for coming back… But today — to see this democratic spirit which has been silenced for so long come back alive again — I feel whole again. Even if temporarily”. I read these lines well past 3 am, still trying to process all that I had witnessed on the streets of Delhi this Monday. These lines, posted on X by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, herself a fine political theorist, captured why July 20 may be remembered in the histo
Yogendra Yadav writes: Demolition of CSDS has begun, due process can wait (opens the original)
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Bulldozer justice reaches academia. That could be the headline for an Indian Express report last week (‘Think tank CSDS likely to face funding cuts from Centre’, IE, July 10) on the government’s move to cut its grant to the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), which amounts to 90 per cent of the institution’s salary bill. No doubt, this is a demolition exercise. As in bulldozer justice, the modus operandi involves turning the rule of law upside down. Criminal justice follows a pr
Yogendra Yadav writes: Some democratic lessons from Global South that our Opposition needs (opens the original)
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Why bother with elections? Why not just boycott this increasingly unfair race? This question is being whispered around. It is time we asked this normally, without any tinge of taboo. It is also time we answered it calmly, without a rush of moral outrage. An open public debate may bring us to this conclusion: Election boycott is a good question, but a bad answer. As of now. The debate should begin with “Why Bother with Elections?” — a question raised in the eponymously titled and defining book on
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